Hook-and-eye dress-fastening



F.' HAWKINS.

HOOK AND EYE DRESS FASTENING.

APPLICATION r|LD1uLv15.1919.

' 1,359,062. Patented Nov. 16, 1920.

F.A HAWKINS.

HOOK AND EYE DRESS FASTENING.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 15,19l9.

Patented Nov. 16, 1920.

In vena? mi M PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK HAWKINS, OIE SITTINGBURNE, ENGLAND.

HOOK-AND-EYE DRESS-FASTENING.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 16, 1920.

Application filed July 15, 1919. Serial No. 310,909.

To all au .710m t may concern.'

Be it known that I, FRANK HAwirrNs, of 40 Dover street, Sittingbourne, in the county of lient, England, tailor, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in or in Connection with Hook-and- Eye Dress-Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

The familiar dress-fastening known as a hook-and-eye or hook-and-loop has the disadvantage that the point or bill of the hook, when being inserted through the eye or loop, is liable to catch in the underlying fabric; and it is the object of my invention to obviate the injury which the garment suf-- fers by reason of the repeated contact of the point of the hook with the body of the garment, and thus avoid the necessity of constant repairs and enable the life of a garment to be prolonged. The invention is intended for use more particularly in cases where the hook or loop. is not attached. at the extreme edge of the garment but is placed upon the fabric at some distance from the edge; as it is in such a situation (and especially if the fabric be of thin or open texture, as often happens in the case of ladies blouses for example) that the trouble referred to is most liable to occur.

According to the invention there is provided, for use with the eye or loop of a hook-and-eye or hook-and-loop dress-fastening, a shield-plate formed separately from the eye portion and adapted to underlie the eye or loop so as to prevent that portion of the fabric to which the eye or loop is attached from being injured by the point or bill of the hook when the latter is being inserted through the eye or loop, no part of said shield plate overlying any part of said eye portion. The shield-plate may be attached to the fabric either independently of or concurrently with the eye or loop. The said shield-plate may be formed of any suitable material such as thin sheet-metal, celluloid or the like; and the shield-plate is provided with suitable holes for enabling it to be stitched to the fabric of the garment.

The invention, which is capable of coni siderable variation as regards detail, will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate typical forms by way of example, and wherein Figure l is a face view of one form of shield-plate shown separately, while Figs. 2 and 3 are similar views showing the same .form of shield-plate as used with a thread loop and a wire loop respectively. Fig. 4: is a face view of another form of shield-plate as used with an ordinary eye.

All the views are drawn to a greatly eX- aggerated scale for the sake of clearness.

ln the following description and in the appended claims the term eye-portion will be used to denote the eye, loop, cross bar, bow, or the like, with which the hook is intended to be engaged to close the fastening.

The shield-plate illustrated in Figs. l, 2 and 8 is entirely separate from and independent of the eye-portion, and is produced, without bending, from a flat blank of sheetmetal, sheet celluloid, or other suitable material. The shield-plate a is formed with a pair of lateral notches b, Z) in its opposite edges, and with a series of holes 0-"- at each side of the notches so as to permit of the plate being stitched as at 0L--- to the fabric e as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3. The notches Z), b allow the use of a thread loop f as in Fig. 2, or of a wire loop or cross bar g as in Fig. 3, of convenient and moderate length, spanning the shield-plate from side to side and constituting the eye-portion; while at the same time the notches Z), permit of the side-stitches l being kept clear of the path of the hook when the latter is inserted through the eye-portion. That is to say, the ends of the thread loop f (Fig. 2), or the usual rings t, L on the ends of the wire cross bar g (Fig. 3), can be stitched to the fabric e within the spaces left by the notches Z), b and moreover, this operation of forming the thread loop f or securing the wire cross bar g can be performed after the stitching of the shield-plate a to the fabric is finished.

The shield-plate j illustrated in Fig. 4 is entirely separate from the eye-portion la, but in this case the shield-plate has at one end a pair of holes adapted to register with the usual rings Z, Z of the wire eye-portion,

' so that both the eye-portion and the shieldplate are secured to the fabric e at these points bv the same stitching, as indicated at d.

I claim l. For combination with the eye-portion of a hook-and-eye dress-fastening, a shieldplate having a continuous portion adapted to directly underlie said eye-portion, said shield-plate being formed separately from the eye-portion and adapted for being se- Cured t0 fabric, 11o part of said shield-plate overlying any part or' saidV eye-portion.

2. F or combination with the eye-portion of a hook-and-eye dress-fastening, a shield-V 5 plate having a` continuous portion adapted to 'directly underlie said eye-portion, said shield-plate being formed with a pair of lateral notches in its opposite edges and'witli a series of holes at each Side. 10 3. For combination with the eyeeportion of a liook-and-eye dress-fastening, a shieldp-late having a continuous portion adapted to directly underlie Said eye-portion7 said shield. plate being formed separately from said eyeporton and provided with sym- 15 metrically arranged holes for securing the saine to fabric, no part of Said Shield plate overlyingany part oi said eye-portion.

FRANK HAVKINS 

